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nVidia vs ATi

blink182av

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I saw AMD vs Intel - thought "hey, why not this?"

I chose nVidia - I am a gamer, I play competitivly and i need the best graphics and best performance to make my gameplay even better. nVidia is so much further ahead of ATi - ATi is just falling back it seems.

Thoughts?

TomK

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3+ Months Ago

Performance between Nvidia and ATi cards are currently deadlocked (if you forget about the newly released Nvidia 7800 GTX because ATi hasn't released their new core yet). The cards leap frog over each other on a game by game basis and you wouldn't notice a difference between a GeForce 6800 Ultra or a Radeon X850 XT PE in most cases.

Benchmark for FarCry:

EliteHunter

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3+ Months Ago

nVidia All the way.

blink182av

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well, nVidia has better GRAPHICS - ATi concentrates on performance. If you set your performance on nVidia to HI - it will be better than the ATi performance.

TomK

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blink182av wrote:

well, nVidia has better GRAPHICS - ATi concentrates on performance. If you set your performance on nVidia to HI - it will be better than the ATi performance.

Actually, it's always been ATi that's been known as the leader in image quality. You couldn't tell the difference between a game rendered by an ATi card and a game rendered by a Nvidia card anyway.

blink182av

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ok, i have read SOOO many review with x800 xtpe vs 6800 ultra 256 -- most reviews agree that the 6800 ultra has better image quality.

TomK

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Take a look at this screenshot. It's from FarCry. Can you see a difference? Which is better? Why?

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/4920/image ... son1af.jpg

blink182av

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#1 -- You only compare it to ONE game
#2 -- Those are 2 different angles - look closely where the top of the aimer thing is...

in doom3 - nvidia wipes out ati - no question

TomK

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3+ Months Ago

I disagree.

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Image quality is similar between both cards and, due to the dark nature of this game, you really can’t tell any difference between 2XAA on each card. In the screenshots above, you’ll see that 1600x1200 with 2XAA looks the same between both cards. There just simply isn’t enough contrast of dark objects put up against bright backgrounds where aliasing stands out in this game.

Article:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzYwLDM=

Image:
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image ... 80X2wuanBn

blink182av

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im not going to keep fighting like this - it is so childish - i have been punched in the testicles twice because of this. haha

Skirge

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hold a sec...lets see this here

SLI ...doesent that mean 2 cards....??? so the first ati card that appears is almost as good as 2 of the top Nvidia cards....

Right ???

TomK

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Skirge wrote:

hold a sec...lets see this here

SLI ...doesent that mean 2 cards....??? so the first ati card that appears is almost as good as 2 of the top Nvidia cards....

Right ???

That's correct. I personally believe that SLi is overrated because it only works in certain games and it's simply not a good value.

TomK

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blink182av wrote:

im not going to keep fighting like this - it is so childish - i have been punched in the testicles twice because of this. haha

We're not fighting. We're having an educated argument. Nobody is throwing "low blows" or such. I love a good argument. That's what the internet is for!

Skirge

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We're not fighting. We're having an educated argument. Nobody is throwing "low blows" or such. I love a good argument. That's what the internet is for!

Soo there proves my point ATI is wayyy better and if u could put SLI on ATI then it would pwn Nvidia till they came out with a new card sooo....yah

and heres a low blow U SMELL oooooooo this!

TomK

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Skirge wrote:

Quote:

We're not fighting. We're having an educated argument. Nobody is throwing "low blows" or such. I love a good argument. That's what the internet is for!

Soo there proves my point ATI is wayyy better and if u could put SLI on ATI then it would pwn Nvidia till they came out with a new card sooo....yah

and heres a low blow U SMELL oooooooo this!

ATi is coming up with their own solution for dual videocards. It's called CrossFire. It seems a lot more versatile than SLi because you can use two different graphics cards.

Here's an article from [H]ard|OCP: http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzc4

blink182av

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are you obsessed with "[H]ard|OCP ???... lets not get offtopic - i just asked what you like better and why... that is enough TomK with the links. we get it. you like ATi

TomK

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blink182av wrote:

are you obsessed with "[H]ard|OCP ???... lets not get offtopic - i just asked what you like better and why... that is enough TomK with the links. we get it. you like ATi

No, I'm not obsessed with HardOCP. It's my favourite website for computer-related stuff though. They have good benchmarks, insight, and opinions. I follow other computer websites as well but HardOCP has always been my favourite.

As for liking ATi more, I do not. In fact, I'm planning to purchase a Nvidia card for my new computer. Both ATi and Nvidia offer great cards and I believe they each hold certain edges over each other. I chose to go with the Nvidia because it offered the best performance in my price range (GeForce 6600 GT). However if I had more money available for my computer I would choose an ATi card (Radeon X800 XL).

The reason I provide links is to prove my statements. This forum seems to be overrun by opinions that are stated as facts. If you want to make a statement like "Nvidia is better than ATi" or vice versa, back it up with proof.

blink182av

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well, if you look back in my first post - i said "Thoughts?" - i did not say argue with others stating facts backed up with links.